General Knowledge Quiz 160 (20 MCQs)

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1. In which country was "The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act" passed by parliament on 4 April 2009 (to come into force on 1 April 2010)?
2. The statue of Mother of Kartli which overlooks Tbilisi, Georgia, carries what?
3. Which year saw the global population reach 5 billion?
4. In 2021 the theatre troupe Told By An Idiot created and staged a play centring on a little-known association during a transatlantic 1910 voyage by which two then little known people?
5. In 2014 the Federal Police of Brazil began to uncover money laundering and corruption at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras, in the course of what operation?
6. For what did 1973 Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz receive his award?
7. Which of these states of the USA is landlocked?
8. Which of these, according to Greek mythology, was the chief of the Gods?
9. In 2011 the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was a cartel of 12 countries:Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and which other?
10. The names of how many South American countries begin with the letter "B" ?
11. What did the Congress of Vienna, September 1814 to June 1815, aim to achieve?
12. Ophanin, piscivorin, ablomin, latisemin and triflin, cysteine-rich secretory proteins that can reduce muscle contractions, are naturally found where?
13. How many is a baker's dozen plus a gross plus a score?
14. Who set a water speed record of 225.6 m.p.h. at Coniston Water in September 1956?
15. What is a group of owls called?
16. Who, until 2016, was the only divorced wife of someone who later became president of the USA?
17. Where did the Eureka Rebellion happen?
18. The name "John Paul Jones" is not a famous name in which of these professions?
19. Jeeves is butler to which fictional character created by P G Wodehouse?
20. What kind of ship was the Japanese "Hōshō", commissioned on 27 December 1922, the first purpose-designed ship of its kind to be commissioned anywhere in the world?